Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before doing this they had first made enquiries about the car 's history from its previous owner and learnt nothing suggesting that the odometer reading was false . |
| 2 | In 1859 he passed first class in botany in the first examination for teachers organized by the Department of Science and Art , and this was his sole academic qualification . |
| 3 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 4 | The success continued for years and many who had first come as children returned as parents with their own families . |
| 5 | For twelve years after J. and I were married we lived first in West and then East Africa , an entirely different kind of life from what had gone before . |
| 6 | Equally , and as can be seen from Table 4.5 , those who took first jobs that were temporary spent more of the 20 month observation period being unemployed and less of it in full-time employment than did those who took first jobs that were permanent . |
| 7 | Equally , and as can be seen from Table 4.5 , those who took first jobs that were temporary spent more of the 20 month observation period being unemployed and less of it in full-time employment than did those who took first jobs that were permanent . |
| 8 | However information from this survey is used to assess the capacity to benefit of various groups of students , including those who entered first degree courses on the basis of non-standard entry qualifications . |
| 9 | But these were crude , ill-formed creatures compared to those she had first made . |
| 10 | In World War I he served first with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and then with his father 's regiment , the Scots Guards . |
| 11 | At 109 and 110 she flew first class on Concorde to New York . |
| 12 | After that he learned first to carry with him everywhere his own survival kit of razor , toothpaste and cigarettes against the likelihood of arrest , and then to survive years in prison surrounded by gaolers like characters out of his own plays , who lived by the laws of the regime 's own absurdist , reality-denying logic . |
| 13 | The Beretta 92 had always been Sabrina 's favourite handgun but Graham still secretly hankered for the Colt .45 he had first started to use in Vietnam . |